"Advocating for Exceptionally Gifted Young People: A Guidebook " (from Davidson website)
This advocacy guidebook is designed for parents interested in addressing the needs of their exceptionally gifted children. It is to be used as an organizational tool and informational guide to building a strong foundation for parent advocacy efforts.

Has anyone used this? Did you find it useful for HG kids?

I'm a little all over the place these days not knowing what I should be making my priority in advocacy Prep and understanding. I've been looking at schools, reading and participating here. I have saved lots of info. printed out I need to organize. I was thinking of making a notebook of info. that really is specific or eyeopening to DS's situation. I'm waiting for the explore results too.


Is there a next step that I can get ready for as a DYS member?

A new voice from Wisconsin. We live in a rural area of WI that claims to have G/T services, but in reality they do not. My son took the Explorer in 4th grade and when we took the results to his teacher she said "Good for you"...not the response for which I was hoping. The school said they would "differentiate" for him, but the teachers tell me they do not know how to differentiate. Finally after years of meetings, in 6th grade the school wrote a Differentiated Education Plan" DEP for my son which the teacher signed, but NEVER IMPLIMENTED.
Our state, WI mandates services for GT kids. Does anyone know what our rights are? The DEP was not worth the paper on which it was written.

onthegomom, did you say you have a child who is a DYS? If so, hopefully your FC can guide you to some extent with advocation.

Is your child entering school for the first time? Or is he/she already enrolled and you're thinking of advocating for him/her next year?

onthegomom,

Has your FC sent a letter to your dc's school/teachers to introduce themselves?

Here is a different take on advocacy and educational planning that might help you:
http://www.malonefamilyfoundation.org/educating_plan.html

We are just in holding mode until we can find out who dd's teacher is going to be next year before we start this all over. Actually we had a written plan for the upcoming year in place with dd's school in April, but then dd did even better on end of year exams than expected. And one of the 3rd grade teachers suddenly quit after school was over. No point advocating, until they hire a new teacher...
Chrys

Hi, WI GT parent1!

You would probably get more replies if you start a new thread. Go back to the parenting and advocacy forum and use the new topic button in the upper left corner.

Cathy